A severe inability to survive a crash seems like an understatement here for Tesla designs.

Nothing survived this Cybertruck crash, not even a number.

DPS says the Cybertruck was traveling westbound when it left the north side of the road and struck a large concrete culvert. […] Authorities have not yet identified the Cybertruck by its license plate or Vehicle Identification Number (VIN). Additionally, the identity of the driver remains unknown due to severe burns sustained in the crash.

The vehicle left the road at 2AM and burned up, leaving nothing behind, “just west of the intersection of Fisher Road and Cedar Port Parkway”.

News reports say it “struck a culvert” in the middle of open fields, which appears to mean it drove into a giant ditch with a buried concrete box.

Very hard to see how going over this culvert could cause the kind of explosive fire that traps and kills anyone in the vehicle.

30mph speed limit?

Presumably it must have crashed straight into the east side of the concrete box at such a high speed, it exploded all the way into the west side of the ditch.

When you look at it from this angle, it actually looks like a road ahead. At 2AM I wonder if the culvert wasn’t visible and the driver thought heading north off the road was actually an option.

It may have been someone trying to off-road at night in what they were told was a vehicle that could survive anything.

Related: Tesla’s Cybertruck hasn’t been crash tested.

…Tesla’s recent past of releasing misleading videos would make any wise consumer pause, but even in its own video the truck seems to shatter rather than crumple in a head-on collision.

Basically Tesla self-tested the Cybertruck and never had it verified. As you probably now can guess from this tragedy, their “self-test” result was not good.

Smashing into a fixed object proved the Cybertruck sends energy directly into the cabin passengers, as there’s no tell-tale ripple through roofline or along the chassis causing tail lights to shatter instead.